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AGENDA TITLE: Adopt Resolution Approving Arts Grants for Fiscal Year 2020/2021
MEETING DATE: January 6, 2021
PREPARED BY: Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Services Interim Director
RECOMMENDED ACTION; Adopt resolution approving arts grants for Fiscal Year 2020/2021.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Each year the City Council allocates funding to support the arts. In
Fiscal Year 2020/21, the amount is $18,250. The Arts Commission
is tasked with reviewing grants and recommendations for spending
the allocated funds, and solicits applications for grants each spring.
For FY 2020/21 funding, the Arts Commission is recommending the City Council earmark $6,000 to
support the Taco Truck Cook -Off and miscellaneous community events, and allocate the remaining
$12,250 to nonprofit organizations to further the arts in Lodi (see attached grant recommendation
summary).
Five grant applications were received by the June 1, 2020, deadline and reviewed by a screening panel
of Lodi Arts Commissioners. Four projects were recommended for funding. ®n November 12, 2020, the
full Commission voted 5-0 to recommend the four applications for funding.
The grants are being submitted for a total of $7,225 for approval by the City Council. They are: Changing
Faces Theater Company - $4,000, Breakthrough Project - $1,300; Lodi Community Art Center, two
grants totaling - $1,925; Lodi Community Band, on hold due to COVID pandemic. The remaining $5,025
will be used for mini -grants throughout the balance of this fiscal year.
FISCAL IMPACT:
FUNDING AVAILABLE:
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cc: City Attorney
Attachment
Funds are included in FY 2020/21 budget
Account # 10010102.72607
Andrew Keys
Andrew Keys, Deputy City Manager
Anwan Baker
Anwan Baker
Interim Director Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services
APPROVED: Andrew Keysfor
Stephen Schwabauer, City Manager
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Email: akeys@lodi.gov
LODI ARTS COMMISSION PROJECT GRANTS
2020-2021 PROGRAM CYCLE
SUMMARY OF GRANT APPLICATIONS
The non -profits presented here applied for grants with the committee and this summary explains
their projects with an excerpt on how they benefit the community. From the various applicants the
committee decides on how the grant monies will assist each participant. The original allocation of
funds was $18,250. From that amount, $6,000 was earmarked for, Taco Truck Cook Off and
miscellaneous community events for Fiscal Year 2020/2021. The rest of the funds, $12,250, were
awarded in grants. See below.
Group Name: Changing Faces Theater Company (CFTC)
Art Form(s): Theater
Grant Request: $5,000
Project Expenses: $7,300
Previous Funding: 2020 - $8,500
2019 - $7,500
2018 - $6,000
2017 - $5,500
2016 - $10,000
2015 - $10,000
2014 - $11,000
2013 - $10,000
2012 - $9,000
2011 — $7,500
2009 - $4,250
2008 - $16,952
2007 - $12,000
Recommended for Funding for 2020/21: YES Award: $4,000
Project Name: "Robin Hood"— Pop -Up Theater Production
Project Date and Location: August - October at various locations in Lodi
Project Description: A 45 -minute pop-up production of "Robin Hood", to be offered for several
months. It requires a quick set-up, travel, adapting to anew environment for
each performance, and ensuring safety and social distancing standards are
met. "Robin Hood" is a lively, entertaining play, which will provide a welcome
change from the challenges of our present lives.
Benefit to the Community: "CFTC program is designed to be of value to all its students. Those
who are pursuing performing arts can spend months immersed in their craft, learning from
experienced mentors. A number of CFTC's alumni engaged in performing arts careers, and many
others are active in semiprofessional and community theater, or even in arts education. The
program stimulates creativity and imagination, and provides a foundation for lifelong appreciation for
the performing arts."
Group Name: Breakthrough Project
Art Form(s): Visual, Music
Grant Request: $1,300
Project Expenses: $2,200
Previous Funding: 2020 - $1,300
2019 - $1,075
2018 - $1,075
2017 - $1,075
2016 - $1,000
2015 - $1,000
2014-$918
Recommended for funding for 2020/21: YES Award: $1,300
Project Name: "Lodi Annual Celebration of Unity"
Project Date and Location: January 18, 2021 at First United Methodist Church Auditorium — 200
W Oak St, Lodi, CA 95240
Project Description: "Breakthrough's 2211 Celebration of Unity, a free community event honoring
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's legacy will be held January 18, 2021. The event
with a theme chosen annually to represent issues of inclusion and diversity in
Lodi; includes speakers, essay reading, music, and art."
Benefit to the Community: The Celebration of Unity gives the essayists, audience, social media
followers and newspaper readers the opportunity to reflect on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of
social justice and unity.
Group Name:
Lodi Community Art Center (LCAC)
Grant Requested
forTwo Projects:
$1,925
Recommended for funding
totals for 2019/20: YES to two projects Award: $1,925
Previous funding:
2018/19 - $8,350 (Juried Photography Show - $1,250; Youth Programs -
$1,500; A Day in the Life - $1,600; The Art of LoCa Brochure - $4,000)
2017/18 - $2,800 (Juried Photography Show $1,300; Youth Gallery and
Scholarship - $1,500)
2016/17 - $4,575 (Juried Photography Show - $1,025; Steam Team - $1,025;
Youth Gallery and Student Scholarships - $1,025; Speaker Series - $1,500)
2015/16 - $4,100 (Juried Photography Show - $1,000; Speaker Series -
$1,300; Youth Program - $1,000; Paint Lodi - $800)
2014/15 - $3,250 (Youth Gallery and Student Scholarship - $1,250; Lodi
Open Studio Tour - $1,000; Juried Photography Show - $1,000)
2013/14 - $4,050 (Youth Gallery and Student Scholarship - $2,000; Juried
Photography Show - $1,000; Paint Lodi - $900; Local Artists Awards - $900)
Project 1
Art Form(s): Visual Art Online
Grant Request: $700
Project Expenses: $700
Project Name: "Online Gallery Shows"
Project Date and Location: Date not listed at Lodi Community Art Center — 110 W Pine St, Lodi,
CA 95240
Recommended for funding for 2020/21: YES Award: $700
Project Description: "The Annual Juried Photography Show" will sponsor and host a well,
organized regional, juried fine art photography show virtually. The show will
illustrate the importance of fine art photography as a creative art form, it will
support the goals of the Lodi Community Art Center and will enhance the
appreciation and understanding of fine art photography in the Lodi
Community and surrounding region.
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Benefit to the Community: Our Juried Photography Show provides a local and regional
opportunity for new and experienced photographers to show their current photographic work and to
participate in a competition."
Prosect 2
Art Form(s): Visual Art Online
Grant Request: $1,225
Project Expenses: $2,500
Project Name: "Lodi Community Art Center Youth Art (LCAC)"
Project Date and Location: Date not listed at Lodi Community Art Center— 110 W Pine St, Lodi,
CA 95240
Recommended for funding for 2020/21: YES Award: $1,225
Project Description: LCAC Paint Lodi is a bi-annual event for the art center. We encourage artists
young and old and in between from the community to greater Lodi and the
surrounding wineries to participate in a juried plein aire event for a 10 -day
period to produce art depicting Lodi. Culminates in a month long show in the
Lodi Art Center Gallery. This year due to COVID-19 pandemic this event will
be held virtually.
Benefit to the Community: "We have found that when we get class room participation we get
families to come by the gallery to see their child's art hanging in a "real" gallery, sometimes for the
first time. After that we see that we have more participation in art center programs."
Group Name: Lodi Community Band (LCB)
Art Form(s): Music
Grant Request: $5,000
Project Expenses: $5,700
Previous Funding: 2019/20 - $1,500
2018/19 - $1,000
2011/2012- $1,000
Project Name: "Free Christmas and Spring Concerts"
Project Date and Location: Date not listed at Hutchins Street Square — 125 S. Hutchins St. Lodi,
CA 95240
Recommended for funding for 2020/21: NO Award: $0 (On hold due to COVID pandemic)
Project Description: "LCB holds two concerts annually at Lodi's Hutchins Street Square Theatre.
The concerts are free to all residents of Lodi and its surrounding
communities. The Christmas concert offers holiday music and audience sing -
along participation. The spring concert presents symphonic band selections
and talented vocalist Kate Bautch, a Delta College instructor. LCB's director
also invites one of the bands from a Lodi Unified School District high school
to perform alone and with the LCB."
Benefit to the Community: "...provide a high-quality music experience appropriate to the occasion
for both the audience and the performers. LCB aims to maximize enjoyment, learning and service to
the community, while striving for continual improvement."
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RESOLUTION NO. 2021-09
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL
APPROVING FISCAL YEAR 2020/21 ARTS GRANTS
WHEREAS, the Fiscal Year 2020/21 budget includes $18,250 in arts grants; and
WHEREAS, grant applications were distributed to local nonprofit organizations with a
submittal deadline of June 1, 2020. Five grant applications were submitted and screened by a
Lodi Arts Commission review panel; and
WHEREAS, four applications were approved at the Lodi Arts Commission meeting on
November 11, 2020; and
WHEREAS, grants were submitted for a total of $7,225 and $5,025 in mini grants to be
determined by the Commission; and
Grants Submitted for Approval
Grant Requestor
Grant Amount
$4,000
Changing Faces Theater Company
Breakthrough Project
$1,300
Lodi Community Arts Center (2 grants)
$1,925
Mini Grants
$5,025
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Lodi City Council does hereby approve
the Fiscal Year 2020/21 arts grants; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, pursuant to Section 6.3q of the City Council Protocol
Manual (Res. No. 2019-223), the City Attorney is hereby authorized to make minor revisions to
the above -referenced document(s) that do not alter the compensation or term, and to make
clerical corrections as necessary.
Dated: January 6, 2021
I hereby certify that Resolution No. 2021-09 was passed and adopted by the Lodi City
Council in a regular meeting held January 6, 2021, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Chandler, Kuehne, Khan, Hothi, and
Mayor Nakanishi
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
JENNIF USMIR
City Cler
2021-09